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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
New York never lost over half its population and most of its key industries.
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True, but it was facing declining revenues, a shrinking population (lost about 800,000 people between 1970 and 1980), a spike in crime rates, all while having to deal with good old deindustrialization. If it wasn't for the rebirth of the financial industry, the city would have been trapped in a death spiral.
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Originally Posted by patm
You could have told me those Winnipeg shots were taken in Detroit and I would have believed you. Ouch.
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You don't even know, man. North Winnipeg is downright healthy compared to Detroit. People may poke fun at it all the time because it's just such an easy target, but there is something about scenes like this that I find just absolutely soul-crushing. It's painful to watch a city slowly die:
(
http://zfein.blogspot.ca/2009/08/loc...o-detroit.html)
It's not just one street either; it's
row after row of city blocks. And the land itself is so utterly worthless that houses are being sold for the value of their copper pipes.
Being Detroit is suffering.
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Originally Posted by armorand93
Maybe Detroit can rename itself Delta City, and go find this guy:
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And behold, his mighty police cruiser lives on, in about the same state of health as Detroit:
Ford Taurus SHO by
dave_7, on Flickr